Message from Scripture: 7/1/2020

Today’s message from Scripture comes from Gal. 6:4-5; “But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.”

While New Testament Christianity is universal in its scope, Christianity focuses on us as individuals, and can accurately be described as the religion of the individual. Christ didn’t expect kingdoms, nations, or states as a whole to follow Him, but countless individuals have found the peace and hope that is in Christ.

For example, only you alone can obey the gospel for the forgiveness of sin. No one else can do that for you. Only you can, through faith which comes through the word of God, believe, repent of your sins, confess Jesus as Lord, and be immersed to have the blood of Christ wash away your sins. Only you and you alone can do this and find the hope of eternal life for you (Acts 2:38).

Only you alone can live the Christian life to please God and show your commitment to Christ as Lord. Applying the Word of God to your own life, to your own unique situations in life every day, is something only you can do. Only you can choose to live as God desires (1 Pet. 4:10-11).

Only you alone will answer for the life you have lived on the day of judgment. We won’t stand before God as a congregation, as a family unit, or any other way other than as individuals (Rom. 14:12). Others might want to do so on your behalf, but they can only answer for themselves.

God loves each of us individually, and wants each of us saved, to live for Him, to stand approved in judgment. How will you personally respond? God bless.

Robert